I think - but could be totally wrong - that they wanted the Klingons to feel like unknown aliens anymore. In the 23rd century, "we" don't really understand Klingons yet. Changing their look again might also help the feeling of unknown to the audience. (Though I kinda feel the bigger reason for the make-up might be the "there's a new boss in the office and he needs to his stamps on everything").
...but he only stamped it three times! *Audience gasps in disgust.*
Okay, so yeah, I couldn't care less for the Klingon redesign (and I am blooming annoyed at the production team for spreading that rumour that these weren't Klingons. That really rubbed me the wrong way.) There are changes in the show that I like, but I really don't all that much care for how they redesigned the Klingons. I don't dislike them, but I don't like them that much either.
> @markhawkman said:
> Well, I take it like in the old westerns where you have the shell-shocked cavalry vet who's paranoid about indian attacks. He's terrified because he's seen what can happen and assumes the worst because he's SEEN the worst. The character comes across as a raving crazy, but... then you realize that it's not craziness and founded in reality.
Yeah, about that: you realize how ridiculously racist most of those old Westerns are?
SOME of them. The raving crazy thing tends to come up in the better ones though. Mainly because in the ones that are pale stereotypes, a character who hates Indians isn't seen as crazy. It's even more fun when the raving crazy guy has to work with friendly Indians. Obviously that last part doesn't apply to Burnham, yet.
Yes I know there's that old "you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover" saying, but what Burnham did is more like judging a book based on it's index and first chapter.
That and TNG and later Klingons were more inclined to restraining their natural tendency to be ---s, so judging TOS Klingons based on Worf's actions is like judging a book... based on a summary of a different book.
See, in Discovery, the lack of aggression from the Klingons was not because they were being nice, the Houses just didn't see a war against the Feds as winnable, so none of them was willing to commit to attacking. This was part of why T'kuvma needed to unite the Houses. NONE of them individually had the strength to pull off a large scale attack. But if they worked together they could stage an attack that had a good chance at accomplishing something.
Starsword, I think your analogy is in error. Recall that Burnham did have some small previous exposure to Klingons - that's how she wound up in Sarek's care, after all.
I'd liken it more to someone who developed an irrational hatred and fear of Muslims after having their home village destroyed and parents killed by some weird splinter group like al-Qaeda. Yes, you and I are well aware that they represent the values of Islam as well as some fellow standing on a street corner screaming about the pigeons in his brain represents the concept of government, but our hypothetical victim doesn't see it that way. Burnham's entire exposure to Klingons has been watching them kill people she cares about. Her reaction, while unfortunate, is understandable - and if she could ever find a Klink who actually lives up to the standards his people are supposed to care about, it might even be curable. (Sadly, I think the first one who ever existed was Worf...)
and if she could ever find a Klink who actually lives up to the standards his people are supposed to care about, it might even be curable. (Sadly, I think the first one who ever existed was Worf...)
That's just it... from what I've seen the norm for Klingons is to treat "honor" as bragging rights, with no connection to the concept of morality. Obviously Klingons DO have a concept of morality, it's just that it's only tenuously linked to honor.
Why is this important? Well, to ascertain whether Burnham is justified in her disdain of Klingons, you first need to discern if her assessment of a "typical" Klingon is correct. Well, given how few Klingons displayed a moral objection to the idea of attacking the Federation, I'd say that if she is incorrect, it is merely a matter of degree. IE your "average" Klingon is not what we would consider to be a good person and the Klingon houses generally avoid attacking Federation colonies because of caution rather than because they feel it's morally wrong to murder Humans and steal their stuff.
There's a better and more relevant analogy available: an American who "hates Muslims", except the only thing he actually knows about Islam is bin Laden and those nineteen petaQs who did the 9/11 attacks. He doesn't know that Islam has nearly as many denominations and sects as Christianity, he doesn't know that the Qur'an explicitly commands Muslims to PROTECT members of other organized religions from persecution, and he especially doesn't know (or at least really believe) that most Muslims can't stand those bomb-wearing lunatics any more than he can.
Except that almost everyone treats Islam as a monolithic force instead of a group of religious factions that have different values and beliefs. Most people don't bother to learn the differences between the various Islam factions where there are moderate and radical factions.
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
[Mod Hat] Okay, I'm trying to be very careful not to let this turn into a discussion on comparative religions because that's against the rules. I only brought this topic up because of the way Star Trek factions are used as allegory. [/Mod Hat]
There's a better and more relevant analogy available: an American who "hates Muslims", except the only thing he actually knows about Islam is bin Laden and those nineteen petaQs who did the 9/11 attacks. He doesn't know that Islam has nearly as many denominations and sects as Christianity, he doesn't know that the Qur'an explicitly commands Muslims to PROTECT members of other organized religions from persecution, and he especially doesn't know (or at least really believe) that most Muslims can't stand those bomb-wearing lunatics any more than he can.
Except that almost everyone treats Islam as a monolithic force instead of a group of religious factions that have different values and beliefs. Most people don't bother to learn the differences between the various Islam factions where there are moderate and radical factions.
Which is exactly my point, Stark: the stereotype isn't true if you bother to look.
Starsword, I think your analogy is in error. Recall that Burnham did have some small previous exposure to Klingons - that's how she wound up in Sarek's care, after all.
I'd liken it more to someone who developed an irrational hatred and fear of Muslims after having their home village destroyed and parents killed by some weird splinter group like al-Qaeda. Yes, you and I are well aware that they represent the values of Islam as well as some fellow standing on a street corner screaming about the pigeons in his brain represents the concept of government, but our hypothetical victim doesn't see it that way. Burnham's entire exposure to Klingons has been watching them kill people she cares about. Her reaction, while unfortunate, is understandable - and if she could ever find a Klink who actually lives up to the standards his people are supposed to care about, it might even be curable. (Sadly, I think the first one who ever existed was Worf...)
So make that "parents killed on 9/11"; I thought about that but forgot to add it. Sue me.
And that's not totally true: Kang, Kor, and Koloth displayed a modicum of respect for those standards while still being closer to the stereotypical Klingon and within the Empire. Martok, too. Even freaking Gowron had it in him to stop being a politician once in a while and do the right thing, reference "The House of Quark".
Sounds like Dances with Wolves to me, which was filmed in my backyard, and with members of my family as extras. Starsword is also completely ignoring that Burnham fell in love with a Klingon.
I'm not ignoring it. She didn't fall in love with a Klingon, she fell in love with a human who turned out to be a Klingon Manchurian agent. Voq ≠ Tyler even when they share the same body.
He is also ignoring that we were literally told that Culper was coming back moments after the episode he was killed finished.
Yes, we were told that. By Aaron Harberts, who over the course of the show's run displayed a track record of telling bald-faced lies to (fail hilariously to) obscure plot twists. It was the "John Harrison isn't Khan" thing all over again. So I don't believe him, and coming back as a "ghost in the Matrix" doesn't count; until I see a living carbon-based humanoid body with his face, he's Dead for Realsies.
Coincidentally, CW's The 100 pulled the exact same stunt with a l*sbian couple about a year before DSC premiered. The backlash from "Clexagate" (hence, "Culbergate"; "Clexa" was the shipping nickname in question) may or may not have contributed to that network choosing to handle the later departure of Floriana Lima from Supergirl considerably differently (she was playing Alex Danvers' girlfriend but got a better offer from Netflix for a role on The Punisher). Apparently Harberts failed to compare notes with anyone.
Besides which, being a LBGTQ character should never ever mean they can't be killed as part of the story, death is a part of life and nobody is immune.
For myself watching Voqler kill Culper had me jumping out of my seat cursing, both because I seriously like Culper and Stamets and because I had been hoping that Voqler would be more successful in bridging the gap between Humans and Klingons.
But for a minute lets say that Beverly Crusher had been killed that suddenly, would anything even similar to "culpergate" (idiotic overused nickname) have ever been heard of? If not why? Because Beverley is straight? Thats predjudice, and I for one am not going to even dignify it with consideration, any character, whether LBGTQ or Straight, of any color, is equal to all others and I reject any argument that any character or group of characters should be treated specially, all are equal, no one is off the target list.
Here's why it matters (and this reply goes for @redvenge's post, as well). Hollywood already has a well-established pattern of killing off or otherwise tormenting LGBTQ and brown characters in preference to straight white characters. So is it really too much to ask that freaking Star Trek of all IPs break the mold and leave them alone for once? What Mr. Sherred was objecting to, why he didn't consider it "special treatment", was that straight couples have more fictional models for a normal, happy couple than they can shake a stick at, and nonstandard couples want to be able to see themselves in fiction, too. Note also that the time he wrote those reviews, it looked awfully like the show's straight couple was going to get a happily-ever-after (although that has since changed, what with Tyler getting sent off to be with the woman he perceives as his rapist for little more reason than because his body used to belong to a Klingon, and you can thank TNG through VOY for that lovely quasi-segregationist "stay with your kind!" message).
TL;DR: is it too much to ask for Stamets and Culber to just be portrayed the way Keiko and Miles were on DS9, i.e. as a normal military family with normal military family problems (Stamets' mushroom weirdness notwithstanding)? Is there some writing rule I don't know about that everything has to be loaded down with "narrative tension"?
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He is also ignoring that we were literally told that Culper was coming back moments after the episode he was killed finished.
Yes, we were told that. By Aaron Harberts, who over the course of the show's run displayed a track record of telling bald-faced lies to (fail hilariously to) obscure plot twists. It was the "John Harrison isn't Khan" thing all over again.
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and Spock is Central to the f****** story of season 2 they flat-out stated that in the trailer the entire season is about Spock you cannot do a story about Spock without Spock so also since he has not appeared yet you have no idea how they're going to be riding him so claiming that you can predict it is just asinine
You made my point for me. Spock is central to the story, instead of any other character that was created for TRIBBLE. Spock OVERSHADOWS their own characters, JUST LIKE YOU SAID.
As for predicting how they are going to write him, executive producer Heather Kadin said "I think that like any brother or sister, there's love. There's deep wells of stuff. That's what's so great about exploring that relationship, is there's a lot of tricky stuff that we get to dig into." Sonequa Martin-Green said "We're certainly gonna see Spock and we're gonna be exploring those family dynamics," she said. "We're gonna see a lot between them." Finally, you have Kurtzman and his "mystery box" nonsense; he's going to "present a version of Spock that's both totally consistent with the Spock everyone knows but very, very different. And it's all gonna tie to how we sync up with canon."
Red, you're making an awful lot of soup from one small bone. I suppose your apparent knee-jerk hatred of anything not "old Trek" (which from your postings seems to be defined as TNG, DS9, and maybe a little VOY - TOS isn't even on your radar, it seems) could thicken the broth a bit, but -
...how, exactly, does having the next season focus on this thing Spock's doing mean his character, who won't even be seen for a while, "overshadows" anyone else? And if you hate Disco as badly as you seem to, why would "overshadowing" it be bad from your POV?
I honestly don't understand the thrust of this argument.
Here's why it matters (and this reply goes for @redvenge's post, as well). Hollywood already has a well-established pattern of killing off or otherwise tormenting LGBTQ and brown characters in preference to straight white characters. So is it really too much to ask that freaking Star Trek of all IPs break the mold and leave them alone for once? What Mr. Sherred was objecting to, why he didn't consider it "special treatment", was that straight couples have more fictional models for a normal, happy couple than they can shake a stick at, and nonstandard couples want to be able to see themselves in fiction, too.
Ash narratively needed to kill somebody. That person had to be a major character. That character couldn't be a main character. That character had to leave an emotional resonance by their death. Culber is the only secondary character the show has had other than Cornwall up to this point.
DSC does not lack for non-white actors. It dosn't have to lack non-straight characters either.
Objecting to killing off Culber because he's brown is ridiculous as they aren't even a minority amongst the crew or main cast. Objecting to him being killed off because he's non-straight is only slightly less nonsensical because it's based on the assumption that DSC has now used up its quota of non-straight characters.
DSC has no requirement to try right Hollywood's perceived wrongs. All works are perfectly able to stand apart in whatever number you wish to chose.
Culber needed to be the one to die and the needs of the story come before any implications of how the story affects the recent American/Western film and TV industry.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
I suppose your apparent knee-jerk hatred of anything not "old Trek" (which from your postings seems to be defined as TNG, DS9, and maybe a little VOY - TOS isn't even on your radar, it seems) could thicken the broth a bit, but -
Who said I liked "old Trek"?
My issue is writing. There is significant bad writing across all of Trek. Star Trek: Enterprise is a dumpster fire for most of it's run. Star Trek: Discovery is, so far, a jumbled mess in need of serious direction in the writing room.
...how, exactly, does having the next season focus on this thing Spock's doing mean his character, who won't even be seen for a while, "overshadows" anyone else?
It's SPOCK. He's a major character, one who has appeared in several movies. He is a "big name star". If you make a school play and have George Clooney as a member of the cast, he is going to overshadow the kids in the play.
For whatever reason, they want to explore why "Spock never talked about Burnham", which is stupid. Focus on Burnham. Or Saru. Or one of those other bridge officers with only a handful of speaking lines that I cannot remember the names of. Build up your own cast. Make them memorable. Give THEM the titular roles. This need to bring in "big name" characters and shove them into the "pivotal" role cheapens Star Trek: Discovery, especially since many of it's own characters are in dire need of expansion.
And if you hate Disco as badly as you seem to, why would "overshadowing" it be bad from your POV?
I honestly don't understand the thrust of this argument.
Who said I hated TRIBBLE?
I hate bad writing. Star Trek: Discovery has sloppy writing. It is bad in places, but mostly sloppy. Star Trek: Discovery can improve, with more oversight and leadership in the writing room. I doubt that is going to happen, but I will continue to point out issues hoping they might improve.
Your every post on the topic - pushing weird conspiracy theories where the show supposedly stole all its major plot elements from an unreleased video game, expressing dismay at the very idea that elements from the show might make it into STO in any way whatsoever, all of your ranting in here... It doesn't exactly take a Ph.D. in psychology to get the drift of your posts.
If you don't like the older stuff either, then a) why b*tch about it? and b) that leaves you not liking any Trek - why are you here?
...I mean, it's literally been retreading previous shows. Klingons, Harry Mudd, Mirror Universe...
Just like every other incarnation of Star Trek on television post TOS.
At least they haven't done a Psi 2000 virus episode yet.
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i don't remember the Harry Mudd appearance on TNG, or DS9, or Voyager. Please refresh my memory there. Also which major characters in any of those other shows was a direct family relative of a member of the original crew? I'll wait...
What are the odds of an ancestor of Noonian Soong being involved in an augment plot during the ENT era or of three notable KDF captains from the TOS era featuring in DS9 (some for multiple episodes)? Worf's grandfather defended Kirk and McCoy during their trial in Undiscovered Country. Matt Decker's son was slated to command the Enterprise prior to Kirk's involvement with TMP. Sulu's daughter (surprise, he has a daughter) helmed the Enterprise B. Also note the involving of Darvin (Harry Mudd style) for a full retcon of Trouble with Tribbles with the thinnest of openings, two characters from TNG starring in DS9, the full replication of Naked Time in TNG, and the miscellaneous cameos that aren't exactly likely given the timescales involved and scale of the Federation (ex. the plot contrivances required to bring Kirk and Scotty into the TNG era.) And of course let's not forget there being a highly improbable (according to internal logic) reboot of TOS to take referencing a past series to the ultimate (including the second cameo of Spock himself in a latter Star Trek production.)
Star Trek has never been shy about using its own material or expanding on characters through subsequent series, and the bar for acceptability was set much lower than the passes made by Discovery.
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TNG never did a Mirror episode, but they did revisit the Get People Drunk Through Bad Science Virus ep from TOS, had Adm. McCoy see the Enterprise off, and actually had an episode that guest-starred James Doohan as Capt. Montgomery Scott, so...
The DS9 incidents have been mentioned above, aside from the fact that the Mirror Universe (or at least a Mirror Universe, I'm not convinced yet that it was the same one) comes into play on more than one occasion, and of course the involvement of Capt. Picard in the two-parter that launched the series. In VOY (which initially departs from DS9, and features Sisko in the opening), we learned that Tuvok was once assigned to the USS Excelsior under Capt. Sulu. ENT introduced us not only to Noonien Soong's grandfather Arik, even played by Brent Spiner, but also to a younger T'Pau (and wasn't Sarek in there somewhere?).
It's called "continuity". Elements from one series show up in another, in part to establish that they're all part of the same big thing. One might as sensibly complain about an early Spider-Man issue in which he nearly joined the Fantastic Four, or NCIS Director Vance showing up on NCIS: LA.
So far there's Mudd who's appeared twice or so which is only slightly more often than Quark's appeared on TNG or VGR. The Mirror Universe that's featured in about as many episodes as in DS9. Sarek as a semi recurring character which is unprecedented and the Enterprise with Pike will set up the second series which certainly isn't what the Enterprise and Picard were doing in 'Emissary'.
Hardly worth wetting your knickers over in terms of DSC being creatively bankrupt. In fact it's pretty indefensibly stupid as far as criticisms go as it relies entirely on closing your eyes and ears to every single crossover or reference that's ever happened in Trek.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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...but he only stamped it three times! *Audience gasps in disgust.*
Okay, so yeah, I couldn't care less for the Klingon redesign (and I am blooming annoyed at the production team for spreading that rumour that these weren't Klingons. That really rubbed me the wrong way.) There are changes in the show that I like, but I really don't all that much care for how they redesigned the Klingons. I don't dislike them, but I don't like them that much either.
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Yes I know there's that old "you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover" saying, but what Burnham did is more like judging a book based on it's index and first chapter.
That and TNG and later Klingons were more inclined to restraining their natural tendency to be ---s, so judging TOS Klingons based on Worf's actions is like judging a book... based on a summary of a different book.
See, in Discovery, the lack of aggression from the Klingons was not because they were being nice, the Houses just didn't see a war against the Feds as winnable, so none of them was willing to commit to attacking. This was part of why T'kuvma needed to unite the Houses. NONE of them individually had the strength to pull off a large scale attack. But if they worked together they could stage an attack that had a good chance at accomplishing something.
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I'd liken it more to someone who developed an irrational hatred and fear of Muslims after having their home village destroyed and parents killed by some weird splinter group like al-Qaeda. Yes, you and I are well aware that they represent the values of Islam as well as some fellow standing on a street corner screaming about the pigeons in his brain represents the concept of government, but our hypothetical victim doesn't see it that way. Burnham's entire exposure to Klingons has been watching them kill people she cares about. Her reaction, while unfortunate, is understandable - and if she could ever find a Klink who actually lives up to the standards his people are supposed to care about, it might even be curable. (Sadly, I think the first one who ever existed was Worf...)
Why is this important? Well, to ascertain whether Burnham is justified in her disdain of Klingons, you first need to discern if her assessment of a "typical" Klingon is correct. Well, given how few Klingons displayed a moral objection to the idea of attacking the Federation, I'd say that if she is incorrect, it is merely a matter of degree. IE your "average" Klingon is not what we would consider to be a good person and the Klingon houses generally avoid attacking Federation colonies because of caution rather than because they feel it's morally wrong to murder Humans and steal their stuff.
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Except that almost everyone treats Islam as a monolithic force instead of a group of religious factions that have different values and beliefs. Most people don't bother to learn the differences between the various Islam factions where there are moderate and radical factions.
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A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Obviously, but the differences between Christian factions aren't as extreme as the differences between Islam factions.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
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Which is exactly my point, Stark: the stereotype isn't true if you bother to look.
So make that "parents killed on 9/11"; I thought about that but forgot to add it. Sue me.
And that's not totally true: Kang, Kor, and Koloth displayed a modicum of respect for those standards while still being closer to the stereotypical Klingon and within the Empire. Martok, too. Even freaking Gowron had it in him to stop being a politician once in a while and do the right thing, reference "The House of Quark".
I'm not ignoring it. She didn't fall in love with a Klingon, she fell in love with a human who turned out to be a Klingon Manchurian agent. Voq ≠ Tyler even when they share the same body.
Yes, we were told that. By Aaron Harberts, who over the course of the show's run displayed a track record of telling bald-faced lies to (fail hilariously to) obscure plot twists. It was the "John Harrison isn't Khan" thing all over again. So I don't believe him, and coming back as a "ghost in the Matrix" doesn't count; until I see a living carbon-based humanoid body with his face, he's Dead for Realsies.
Coincidentally, CW's The 100 pulled the exact same stunt with a l*sbian couple about a year before DSC premiered. The backlash from "Clexagate" (hence, "Culbergate"; "Clexa" was the shipping nickname in question) may or may not have contributed to that network choosing to handle the later departure of Floriana Lima from Supergirl considerably differently (she was playing Alex Danvers' girlfriend but got a better offer from Netflix for a role on The Punisher). Apparently Harberts failed to compare notes with anyone.
Here's why it matters (and this reply goes for @redvenge's post, as well). Hollywood already has a well-established pattern of killing off or otherwise tormenting LGBTQ and brown characters in preference to straight white characters. So is it really too much to ask that freaking Star Trek of all IPs break the mold and leave them alone for once? What Mr. Sherred was objecting to, why he didn't consider it "special treatment", was that straight couples have more fictional models for a normal, happy couple than they can shake a stick at, and nonstandard couples want to be able to see themselves in fiction, too. Note also that the time he wrote those reviews, it looked awfully like the show's straight couple was going to get a happily-ever-after (although that has since changed, what with Tyler getting sent off to be with the woman he perceives as his rapist for little more reason than because his body used to belong to a Klingon, and you can thank TNG through VOY for that lovely quasi-segregationist "stay with your kind!" message).
TL;DR: is it too much to ask for Stamets and Culber to just be portrayed the way Keiko and Miles were on DS9, i.e. as a normal military family with normal military family problems (Stamets' mushroom weirdness notwithstanding)? Is there some writing rule I don't know about that everything has to be loaded down with "narrative tension"?
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You made my point for me. Spock is central to the story, instead of any other character that was created for TRIBBLE. Spock OVERSHADOWS their own characters, JUST LIKE YOU SAID.
As for predicting how they are going to write him, executive producer Heather Kadin said "I think that like any brother or sister, there's love. There's deep wells of stuff. That's what's so great about exploring that relationship, is there's a lot of tricky stuff that we get to dig into." Sonequa Martin-Green said "We're certainly gonna see Spock and we're gonna be exploring those family dynamics," she said. "We're gonna see a lot between them." Finally, you have Kurtzman and his "mystery box" nonsense; he's going to "present a version of Spock that's both totally consistent with the Spock everyone knows but very, very different. And it's all gonna tie to how we sync up with canon."
It sounds like a trainwreck in the making.
...how, exactly, does having the next season focus on this thing Spock's doing mean his character, who won't even be seen for a while, "overshadows" anyone else? And if you hate Disco as badly as you seem to, why would "overshadowing" it be bad from your POV?
I honestly don't understand the thrust of this argument.
Ash narratively needed to kill somebody. That person had to be a major character. That character couldn't be a main character. That character had to leave an emotional resonance by their death. Culber is the only secondary character the show has had other than Cornwall up to this point.
DSC does not lack for non-white actors. It dosn't have to lack non-straight characters either.
Objecting to killing off Culber because he's brown is ridiculous as they aren't even a minority amongst the crew or main cast. Objecting to him being killed off because he's non-straight is only slightly less nonsensical because it's based on the assumption that DSC has now used up its quota of non-straight characters.
DSC has no requirement to try right Hollywood's perceived wrongs. All works are perfectly able to stand apart in whatever number you wish to chose.
Culber needed to be the one to die and the needs of the story come before any implications of how the story affects the recent American/Western film and TV industry.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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My issue is writing. There is significant bad writing across all of Trek. Star Trek: Enterprise is a dumpster fire for most of it's run. Star Trek: Discovery is, so far, a jumbled mess in need of serious direction in the writing room.
It's SPOCK. He's a major character, one who has appeared in several movies. He is a "big name star". If you make a school play and have George Clooney as a member of the cast, he is going to overshadow the kids in the play.
For whatever reason, they want to explore why "Spock never talked about Burnham", which is stupid. Focus on Burnham. Or Saru. Or one of those other bridge officers with only a handful of speaking lines that I cannot remember the names of. Build up your own cast. Make them memorable. Give THEM the titular roles. This need to bring in "big name" characters and shove them into the "pivotal" role cheapens Star Trek: Discovery, especially since many of it's own characters are in dire need of expansion.
Who said I hated TRIBBLE?
I hate bad writing. Star Trek: Discovery has sloppy writing. It is bad in places, but mostly sloppy. Star Trek: Discovery can improve, with more oversight and leadership in the writing room. I doubt that is going to happen, but I will continue to point out issues hoping they might improve.
Your every post on the topic - pushing weird conspiracy theories where the show supposedly stole all its major plot elements from an unreleased video game, expressing dismay at the very idea that elements from the show might make it into STO in any way whatsoever, all of your ranting in here... It doesn't exactly take a Ph.D. in psychology to get the drift of your posts.
If you don't like the older stuff either, then a) why b*tch about it? and b) that leaves you not liking any Trek - why are you here?
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At least they haven't done a Psi 2000 virus episode yet.
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What are the odds of an ancestor of Noonian Soong being involved in an augment plot during the ENT era or of three notable KDF captains from the TOS era featuring in DS9 (some for multiple episodes)? Worf's grandfather defended Kirk and McCoy during their trial in Undiscovered Country. Matt Decker's son was slated to command the Enterprise prior to Kirk's involvement with TMP. Sulu's daughter (surprise, he has a daughter) helmed the Enterprise B. Also note the involving of Darvin (Harry Mudd style) for a full retcon of Trouble with Tribbles with the thinnest of openings, two characters from TNG starring in DS9, the full replication of Naked Time in TNG, and the miscellaneous cameos that aren't exactly likely given the timescales involved and scale of the Federation (ex. the plot contrivances required to bring Kirk and Scotty into the TNG era.) And of course let's not forget there being a highly improbable (according to internal logic) reboot of TOS to take referencing a past series to the ultimate (including the second cameo of Spock himself in a latter Star Trek production.)
Star Trek has never been shy about using its own material or expanding on characters through subsequent series, and the bar for acceptability was set much lower than the passes made by Discovery.
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The DS9 incidents have been mentioned above, aside from the fact that the Mirror Universe (or at least a Mirror Universe, I'm not convinced yet that it was the same one) comes into play on more than one occasion, and of course the involvement of Capt. Picard in the two-parter that launched the series. In VOY (which initially departs from DS9, and features Sisko in the opening), we learned that Tuvok was once assigned to the USS Excelsior under Capt. Sulu. ENT introduced us not only to Noonien Soong's grandfather Arik, even played by Brent Spiner, but also to a younger T'Pau (and wasn't Sarek in there somewhere?).
It's called "continuity". Elements from one series show up in another, in part to establish that they're all part of the same big thing. One might as sensibly complain about an early Spider-Man issue in which he nearly joined the Fantastic Four, or NCIS Director Vance showing up on NCIS: LA.
Hardly worth wetting your knickers over in terms of DSC being creatively bankrupt. In fact it's pretty indefensibly stupid as far as criticisms go as it relies entirely on closing your eyes and ears to every single crossover or reference that's ever happened in Trek.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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